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LIGHTNING

Woman in coma after lightning strikes trullo

A 47-year-old woman is in a coma and 14 others were injured after lightning struck a trullo, a home typical of the Puglia region, on Sunday.

Woman in coma after lightning strikes trullo
The lightning struck a trullo home in Puglia. Photo: Elizabeth Buie

The group was having lunch in a pine forest in Castellana Grotte, near Bari, on Sunday afternoon when the area was hit by a sudden storm, Bari Today reported, and so they sought shelter in an empty nearby trullo, a white cone-roofed house.

Once inside, the lightning struck, with its dangerous current travelling through the trullo’s wet floor.

The woman, who was taken to a hospital near Bari, was named as Emma Loliva, a teacher from Putignano.

A 51-year-old policeman was also seriously injured after suffering burns due to an electric shock.

The lightning caused electricity black-outs in other parts of Bari. Most of Italy was hit by strong storms over the Ferragosto holiday weekend. 

Two young people also died in storms early last week

 

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WEATHER

Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

Blizzards in Denmark this week have resulted in the greatest depth of snow measured in the country for 13 years.

Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

A half-metre of snow, measured at Hald near East Jutland town Randers, is the deepest to have occurred in Denmark since January 2011, national meteorological agency DMI said.

The measurement was taken by the weather agency at 8am on Thursday.

Around 20-30 centimetres of snow was on the ground across most of northern and eastern Jutland by Thursday, as blizzards peaked resulting in significant disruptions to traffic and transport.

A much greater volume of snow fell in 2011, however, when over 100 centimetres fell on Baltic Sea island Bornholm during a post-Christmas blizzard, which saw as much as 135 centimetres on Bornholm at the end of December 2010.

READ ALSO: Denmark’s January storms could be fourth extreme weather event in three months

With snowfall at its heaviest for over a decade, Wednesday saw a new rainfall record. The 59 millimetres which fell at Svendborg on the island of Funen was the most for a January day in Denmark since 1886. Some 9 weather stations across Funen and Bornholm measured over 50cm of rain.

DMI said that the severe weather now looks to have peaked.

“We do not expect any more weather records to be set in the next 24 hours. But we are looking at some very cold upcoming days,” DMI meteorologist and press spokesperson Herdis Damberg told news wire Ritzau.

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